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Gore Position Du Jour
On Medical Marijuana:
Today He Opposes Will Of People Of California, State Party Leaders.
Does He Really Think He Can Get Away With This?
See
Gore’s Backs
"Flexibility" On Medical Marijuana.
In Fact, His Position Is So Flexible That He Is On 3 Sides Of The Issue.
But The Washington Post Cites NORML; Now That Is A Miracle!(Marijuananews note: The editors of the LA Times asked the right
questions, although they did not "cross-examine" him in the way we would like.
In any case, this shows that the issue is on the public agenda and is not going away.
Gore has now taken a position that puts him at odds with a majority of the people in
states with over 20% of the population. He also clearly does not know what he is talking
about. All of this from a man who smoked marijuana for years, and who has to carry most of
these states, especially California to win the White House in 2000.
At this point, incredibly, George W. Bush has the best position on medical marijuana.
He is in favor of a state’s right to set its own policy.)
December 20, 1999
From The Los Angeles Times
letters@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/
http://www.latimes.com/home/discuss/
Note: Full version at
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/elect2000/pres/gore_transcript.htm
Excerpt From Los Angeles Times Interview Of Vice President Al Gore
Regulation of Tobacco and Use of Medical Marijuana
Q: If the Supreme Court strikes down the FDA's authority to regulate nicotine in
cigarettes which people say could happen, would a Gore Administration push very hard and
initiate legislation through Congress that would give the FDA authority to regulate
tobacco? And my second question relates to medical marijuana. Can you be very clear under
which conditions you would condone and you would support medical use of marijuana?
A: Sure. The answer to the first question is yes. I would
aggressively pursue the authority for FDA to regulate nicotine. It is a drug. It's
obviously a drug. It's more addictive, according to many scientists, it's more addictive
than heroine or cocaine. And it certainly kills a lot more people. We lose more
Americans to smoking every year than the total number of Americans who died in all of
World War II alone. I mean if we were losing that many Americans to the actions of a
foreign military power every year, what do you think we would do in response?
(Marijuananews note: Does this mean he thinks we should bomb
Winston-Salem? Does this mean that he is in favor of banning cigarettes? What does this
mean?)
The sky would be the limit. Yet we're taking this lying down because it's been
ingrained in our culture, because of the billions of dollars in mental conditioning by the
cigarette companies. It's the single largest cause of preventable death in the nation --
the single largest cause of preventable serious disease in the nation. And you bet I would
seek to regulate nicotine as a drug. Now on the second question, if the research shows
that there are pain relieving uses for medical marijuana that nothing else can confer,
then I think on the basis of that research it should be allowed. But only under strictly
supervised circumstances, and only after the research arrives at that conclusion on the
basis of science.
Q: What about the compassionate use of medical marijuana now, and some people say they
can't wait around for years...
A: The active ingredient is available now, and the claims that other substances in
the smoke are therapeutic have not been validated by scientists. The potential for the
back door legalization of marijuana is a serious concern and I'm opposed to the
legalization of marijuana...Yes, as I think I said the other night, I think that all of
those initiatives have been overly broad and would result in the de facto legalization of
marijuana, and I'm opposed to that. You know, for a number of years in Tennessee medical
marijuana was legal.
Q: Wasn't your sister...
A: Yes. She was given a prescription for her chemotherapy, but
it didn't work. And you know, the scientists are... If the science showed that it
did work and worked better than anything else, then you know, fine. And I also said in the
debate the other night that I think we need new attention on this issue that doctors have
been raising on pain management, because there are a lot of people who suffer a great deal
of pain unnecessarily because of prevailing philosophies in medical practice that you
know, the better research tends to
discredit. But in the case of medical marijuana, the research tends
now clearly to show that there is never a circumstance where smoke delivered medicine is
the recommended prescription.
See
NORML Special Bulletin -- IOM
Acknowledges:
"There is no clear alternative for people suffering from chronic conditions
that might be relieved by smoking marijuana, such as pain or AIDS wasting."
But Still Opposes Smoked Marijuana --
and
Column By Authors of
the IOM Report On Medical Marijuana
Shows Why The Public Does Not Trust The Medical Establishment –
And Why They Should Not! With Analysis by Richard Cowan
and
Counterblaste to DEA: Fallacious
Pharmacology.
"The contention that smoking cannot possibly be an acceptable route for the
administration
of a therapeutic substance is morality dressed up as science." by Peter Webster
Now if that changes, and I agree from what they tell me that the
research has some ambiguities in it, and that they're going back to take another look at
it. If the research shows that it is the recommended medical treatment, then that's a
different matter, but it's not there yet.
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